James M. Roberts, author at DailySignal.com

Future of U.S. Education: From Milwaukee to Mexico?

James M. Roberts | July 07, 2010

Stephen Moore has a good case study in the July 7 Wall Street Journal detailing the intransigence of the Milwaukee Teachers’ union, which is refusing… Read More

G-20: Obama Keeps Talking, But The World Has Stopped Listening

James M. Roberts | June 28, 2010

Although Canada’s taxpayers were forced to spend one billion dollars for security at the G-20 Summit in Toronto last weekend, more than 600 people were… Read More

The Road to Economic Freedom and the OECD

James M. Roberts | May 11, 2010

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group often seen as an exclusive club of rich countries, voted unanimously on Monday to admit Israel. … Read More

Much Ado About Little: Congress Touts Phony Foreign Affairs “Savings”

James M. Roberts | April 28, 2010

There is much hand-wringing in the mainstream media about the Senate Budget Committee’s 6.8% cut of $4 billion last week to the Obama Administration’s massive… Read More

Chavez Needed a Bailout – So He Made One Up!

James M. Roberts | April 21, 2010

Last weekend President Hugo Chavez announced with great fanfare that Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), had signed an agreement with China… Read More

Say “Adios” to Obama’s “National Export Initiative”

James M. Roberts | March 25, 2010

The latest outbreak of creeping global protectionism is in Brazil, which announced March 8 that it intends to levy nearly USD$600 million in increased import… Read More

Obama Administration Discovers Trade–As Another Great Excuse to Grow Government!

James M. Roberts | February 04, 2010

President Obama’s Secretary of Commerce, Gary Locke, rolled out the administration’s new “National Export Initiative (NEI)” today at the National Press Club. The way Secretary… Read More

NAFTA Should Not Take the Fall for Mexico’s Failure to Reform

James M. Roberts | February 03, 2010

Participants at a recent conference in Washington blamed Mexico’s failure to achieve above-average economic growth in the past decade on the North American Free Trade… Read More

Things to Remember While Helping Haiti

James M. Roberts | January 13, 2010

Today, the United States began surveying the damage inflicted by a devastating earthquake in Haiti this week. In addition to providing immediate humanitarian assistance, the… Read More

More Germans Vote for Economic Freedom

James M. Roberts | September 28, 2009

The dramatic surge in support for Germany’s pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP), which received “a record 14.6% of the vote” according to the Wall Street… Read More

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